"... "bhiks.un.is who are mahayana-sam.prasthita"
i.e. nuns who have set out in the Mahayana"

PraS 910b12-21

"White-robed bodhisattvas ... should not have any affection for
their wives ... They should always think longingly of leaving their wives".

116

AkTV 755c28-756a2

in buddha-fields, the women are "more beautiful ... than the women
of this world, as in Aks.obhya’s buddhaks.etra Abhirati"

117

AkTV 753a11-16

"For the paragons of femininity in Abhirati, ... fine clothes and
jewelry literally grow on trees, they feel no pain or weariness in pregnancy
or childbirth, and they are free from ... flow of menstrual blood".

passages containing several terms are lacking in the oldest Chinese translations
of the As.t.a-sahasrika-Prajn~a-paramita Sutra
:-

p.

term

305

dharma-kaya

307

bhuta-kot.i

308

dharma-dhatu

p. 308 explanation for this

"Far too often, there is a tacit assumption that a Sanskrit edition
represents the "original", when in fact such editions are usually
based on manuscripts that come from a relatively late period of Buddhist
history in India. ...

It is no longer feasible to dismiss the differences between the early
Chinese versions and the later Sanskrit tradition as only representing
abbreviations or the whim of the translators ..."